The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-28
REPLYING TO A COMMUNICATION
In The "UNION,"
Deny that they Distributed Money In
Nashville for the Defeat Of the
Whisky Amendment, and
NORMENT AND T0LLEY DE.
CLARED THEMSELVES
In Favor of Submitting 1t to the
PeOple-ResOlutiOns and Bills
In the House.
ESPECIAL TO THE ArrrAL.l

be added 10 the Committee on Com
mon Schools, and MessIs. Montedon-
leo, Garden, Nancy, Mcdowell and
Long as Committee on Labor.
Petitions: Mr.. Trimble presented
petition from men, women and chill
aren OF Nashville, from the convicts
In the Penitentiary, from the students
of Vanderbilt University, urging the
passage of the prohibition amend
melt.
Petitions CT like character were pre-.
scented by Senators Brown, Oobbs,
Jones, Lewis, Thompson, Mcdowell,
Williamson, Norment, Leech and Fair
banks.
Mr.. Tolley presented a petition
from citizens of franklin and Moore
counties, asking the change of the line
between those counties.
Mr.. Townes presented petition
from citizens Of Huntingdon asking
the repeal of the charter OF that town.
Mr.. Thompson presented petition
asking the passage OF an act to allow
soldiers of the war of 1912 to peddle
without license.
Under a question OF privilege tho
Senate INDUCED in some very sharp
criticisms of the Union and it's editor.
Mr.. Norment ct lted the ball by
reading an editorial from the Union Of
this morning. which charges that the
delay in considering and passing the
constitutional amendment was secured
for the purp1se of defeating the
measure. Mr.. Norment said he
supposed the writer had reference
to the action OF the Sem
ate yesterday in postponing fur
Their consideration of the matter
till Saturday. "When 1t is charged
that we intend to violate the pledges
made to our people it is an irnputation
unjust and untrue. So far as / am
COZ cerned l am as much in favor OF
submitting this queS ton as the gsntle-
man who wrote this article. l pro-
pose to vote for this measure, and
when any editor of any newspaper
says l intend 10 defeat this measure l
say 1t is untrue. The man who makes
charge like this, in my opinion, is
unworthy OF the trust or the esteem of
apy people. The man who makes a
pledge to his constituency is as much
bound to carry it out as If he had
taken an oath before magis-
trate. l do not think our action
Yesterday was intended to defeat the
measure. Every member here, ex-
cept two, stands pledged to submit
this question to the people, and four
fifths of the argument on the ques-
ton have been made by the advo.
Gates of the measure.
Mr.. Long said he had intended to
say something on this subj ect, but the
Senator from Hardeman had said it
so well that be should say but little.
He simply desired to say that he re-
pudiatsd the insinua,ions that had
been thrown out by certain persons
that there WIS desire on the part of
the Senate to defeat the amendment
Mr.. Lynn ross Ito a question OF
privilege and read communication
signed by can Outsider" and printed
in the Union this morning. He said
this was a plain imput ation on the
Senate. He stood in the Senate as a
fair minded, honest man, and he de-
sired to say on behalf Of his colleague
aud himself that the impuiation
thrown out in the article that they had
been supplied with money to defeat
the measure was without the shadow
Of truth. He and his colleague stood
alone in their opposition-2 to 81. In
their opposition they proposed to act
in manly and patriotic way.
Mr.. M0ntedonico said the charge
that money has been distributed here
for the purpose OF defeating the meas
ure, 80 far as it referred to him, was as
false as hell. /
Mr.. Leech said that he had not read
any of the newspaper aIticles, but
the press had the right to
public servants. He had
made it a rule never to kick at
every little cur that snapped at his
heels. He moved that the vote post
poning further consideration OF the
be reconsidered.
Mr.. Nancy regretted that the Senate
had seen proper 10 treat the matter
seriously.
Mr.. Jarvis thought no sensible man
or woman wrote the communication,
but that it was the work OF q lunatic.
Mr.. Brown moved to refer the arti-
cles in the Union to the magwump
committee.
Mr.. Padgett said the charges, SO far
as he was concerned, were "a false as
hell.
Mr.. Tolley denied that he had on
yesterday said one word that could be
construed into abuse of woman, and
so far as the charges referred to him,
they were base, slanderous and cow
ardly. The charge that he was the
champion OF the whisky interest was
base Islander. He did not own dollar
of interest in the whisky traffic. In
his canvass he brought on himself the
of the whisky men rather
than otherwise. He regarded the pro.
hibition hereey the meanest OF here
sizes, but favored the submission. OF all
ths newspapers most fit to cast impu-
tation on gentlemen, the Union was
the fittest paper, that by its course in
the last campaign it assisted in
electing the opposition ticket in David
son county.
Mr.. Sparks submitted the following
resolution:
ResoIved, That the Union has charged that
money has been used.
Resolved, That so help US God we are in
nocent.
Declared out OF order.
NEW BILLS.
To grant permission to soldiers Of
the war Of 1872 to peddle without
license.
To exempt and relieve property
held for charitable, scientific and re-
igious purposes.
To fluid the outstanding bonds Of
the Peabody Institute into certificates
Of Indebtedness.
To regulate and amend the marriage
laws.
To repeal the charter of McLemore-
vile.
NEW RESOLUTIONS.
That the committees on charitable